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In early 1928, bored, wealthy aristocrat Phryne Fisher (pronounced 'fry-knee') solves a minor mystery at a dinner when she finds a stolen necklace. One of her fellow guests is impressed by her skill at deduction and asks her to solve a case for him in Australia. Phryne returns to her native land, solves the case and becomes a private detective. Taking Melbourne and the rest of Victoria by storm with her class, skills, flair and talent for [[Refuge in Audacity|continually doing scandalous things]], she quickly builds up a group of friends and allies- everyone from a pair of cab drivers to one of the few female doctors in the country- while solving her strange and myriad cases.
▲The Phryne Fisher mysteries:
* ''Cocaine Blues''
* ''Flying Too High''
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* ''Dead Man's Chest''
The series
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Phryne and Eliza's mother never really did much to help them, and their father was an alcoholic bastard who continually tried to force his daughters into arranged marriages they didn't want.
* [[Action Girl]]: Phryne.
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* [[The Butcher]]: Backyard abortionist 'Butcher George' in ''Cocaine Blues''.
* [[Clueless Mystery]]: Occurs often. For example, in ''Murder In The Dark'', the abductor is revealed to be {{spoiler|Sylvanus}}, but we're never told some of the things that leads Phryne to figure it out- like that he can't swim, for instance.
* [[Conviction
* [[Costume Porn]]: Phryne's art deco high fashion wardrobe, including a genuine Erte ball gown. However, if she disguises herself as a poor person, she is careful to have her garments aged and dirtied.
* [[Dead Artists Are Better]]: {{spoiler|[[Lampshade|lampshaded]] in ''Murder in Montparnasse''}}
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** Basically, all Chinese matriarchs are like this. Hell, all Chinese elderly women are like this.
* [[Food Porn]]: Often.
* [[Friend
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Jane, one of Phryne's adopted daughters.
* [[Genteel Interbellum Setting]]: Most of the stories are set in 1928 (the most recent books are set in 1929). Phryne reads both [[
* [[Girl Friday]]: Dot Williams, Phryne's confidential maid and companion.
* [[Instrument of Murder]]: The {{spoiler|mute in a cornet}} is used as a blowgun in ''The Green Mill Murder''.
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* [[Society Marches On]]: In ''The Castlemaine Murders'', Eliza has a secret she finally confesses to Phryne: {{spoiler|she's a socialist- and also, as we find out later, a lesbian.}} This doesn't seem like much to modern viewers, but the idea of a noble woman being {{spoiler|a lesbian socialist}} would have huge repercussions for Eliza and her entire family in the day.
* [[Supreme Chef]]: Ruth, Phryne's other adopted daughter.
* [[Thriller
* [[Title Drop]]: In ''Away With The Fairies'', Phryne describes Ms Lavender as being totally away with the fairies- that is, insane.
* [[True Companions]]: The soldiers in ''Murder In Montparnasse''. They are ''not'' happy when two of them are murdered.
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